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Afghanistan is responsible for more than 90 per cent of the world’s opium poppy cultivation and, every year, around 375 tons of Afghan heroin enter the global market [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
We, the undersigned, feel that the penalty of €17,173,990 that Adrian Mutu will be forced to pay to Chelsea Football Club is unreasonable, inequitable and completely unfair to a player who has already been more than sufficiently disciplined for his breach of contract while in the employ of Chelsea FC [Justice for Adrian Mutu]
According to a news story published today on Miadhu News, the Maldives has urged the United Nations to refocus its fight against illicit narcotics from security protection to enhanced public health {3’18”} [Talking Drugs]
In July 2009, we ran a feature about the advocacy campaign in the USA to remove a 20-year old federal funding ban for needle and syringe programmes. After years of effort, there is cautious optimism that the end of this ban is close – but significant obstacles remain [IHRA]
The UN Human Rights Council, the highest political body in the UN dealing specifically with human rights, has closed its twelfth regular session having adopted two resolutions of considerable importance to harm reduction – HIV/AIDS and human rights, and access to essential medicines [IHRA]
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the delivery of “packages of care” for mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries [PLoS Medicine]
Alcohol use is related to sickness absence in two somewhat different ways [Wiley InterScience]
In injecting drug users in Australia: implications for prevention policy and planning. To determine risk factors and estimate their population-level contribution to hepatitis C virus (HCV) burden [Wiley InterScience]
Outlines the results of analyses carried out on the content of tablets sold as ecstasy, collected in the Netherlands by the Drugs Information Monitoring System (DIMS) from January 1993 to December 2008 [Wiley InterScience]
The UN Human Rights Council, the highest political body in the UN dealing specifically with human rights, has closed its twelfth regular session having adopted two resolutions of considerable importance to harm reduction [International Harm Reduction Association]
This Perspective introduces a new series in PLoS Medicine on mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries that reviews the evidence for packages of care for ADHD, alcohol misuse disorders, dementia, depression, epilepsy, and schizophrenia [PLoS Medicine]
This report argues that the growing involvement of the alcohol industry in scientific research needs to be acknowledged and addressed. It suggests a set of principles to guide ethical decision-making in the future [Wiley InterScience]
To critically evaluate the methods utilized in the conduct of a systematic review in the field of substance misuse [Wiley InterScience]
A within-subjects study investigated whether consumption of alcohol and other substances changes during marijuana abstinence [Alcohol Reports Blogspot]
In this response to Report the IDPC welcomes improvements in the way in which sections of the Office have moved to approach the complex problem of presenting and interpreting data on global illicit drug markets as well as the associated increase in transparency surrounding working methodologies [International Drug Policy Commission]
The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement’s money supply [Herald Tribune]
As followers of our death penalty coverage in the HR2 blog will know, Asia is one of the regions of the world where the application of the death penalty for drug offences is most commonly applied [International Harm Reduction Association]
Now, Indonesian parents must also be aware that they have committed a crime if they fail to notify the authorities of their drug addicted children [TAlking Drus]
Cristina Albertin, UNODC Representative for South Asia recently visited the North East of India and met determined men and women dealing with drug use and HIV and AIDS [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
The video shows the important work of the Gadjuristen. They are street lawyers who give assistance to drug users and disadvantaged people [Talking Drugs]
